News Summary:
- Addressing the need to connect, secure and assure increasingly complex applications and networks, Cisco
introduces new integrations across networking and security portfolios.
- IT teams can manage more of their campus and branch secure networking technologies from a unified AI-driven
cloud platform with additions to the wireless and switching portfolios.
- Customers can advance the support of AI/ML workloads in data centers of all sizes with new Cisco Validated
Designs and UCS-X Series Direct.
CISCO LIVE EMEA, AMSTERDAM, Feb. 6, 2024 — Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO), the leader in networking and
security, today introduced new capabilities and technologies across its networking portfolio that are designed to
drive a more unified and integrated approach to managing and securing customer networks.
IT organizations are looking to their technology providers to help address three core priorities in their network
operations: security, automation, and a unified digital experience for their end users, things, and applications. As
these same companies look to deploy AI-powered technologies, the need has only grown to have a deep understanding of
the end-to-end experience.
“As a market leader in both networking and security, and with visibility into over 1 billion endpoints, Cisco
is in a unique position to build the industry’s premier AI-driven, secure and simple networking management
platform, Cisco Networking Cloud,” said Jonathan Davidson, EVP and GM, Cisco Networking. “Whether
it’s autonomous operations or simply delivering a trouble-free experience to an end user, endpoint and network
data is key to AI-driven intelligence. The best data produces the best result, and Cisco has the best data.”
Secure Networking
Users require a secure networking solution that delivers a shared view across their entire network, and a scalable
way to enforce security policies everywhere, without compromising their always-on, optimized user experience. To
address the needs of their users, Cisco is introducing new Cisco Networking Cloud innovations:
- New Integrations with Cisco Secure Access: Highlighting Cisco’s commitment to provide
customers with the tools to bring networking and security teams closer together, Cisco is introducing deeper
integrations between Cisco Networking and Security Cloud platforms. These innovations with Cisco Secure Access,
Cisco’s Secure Services Edge (SSE) solution, deliver a unified approach to networking and security
management, and automated monitoring of the digital experience, providing insights from network, device and
application performance metrics. These integrations are available today with Catalyst SD-WAN and ThousandEyes.
- Enhanced security posture reporting for OT assets: Industrial organizations can now utilize the
Security Posture report for comprehensive details on OT asset inventories, top vulnerabilities and highest cyber
risks to help reduce the attack surface. These features are available with Cisco Cyber Vision and available as
part of our hardened industrial-grade routers, switches, and firewalls.
Simplified Operations
To demonstrate how Cisco is continuing to converge its management platforms and work towards a unified portfolio
experience, Cisco is introducing:
- Cloud Monitoring for Catalyst Wireless: First
introduced as a capability for Catalyst switching, customers can now view select Catalyst wireless
devices in the Meraki dashboard. This new capability gives Cisco customers a complete, cloud-managed view of
their access networks. Cloud Monitoring for Catalyst Wireless supports the Catalyst 9800 Wireless Controllers
and most Catalyst Wi-Fi 5 Wave 2, Wi-Fi 6 and Wi-Fi 6E access points.
- Catalyst 9300-M Cloud-Managed Switch Models: Cisco is continuing its journey to a single,
unified hardware architecture with the new Catalyst 9300-M switches which will be managed natively from the
Meraki dashboard. This is the first step in the evolution towards full cloud management for the Catalyst
switching portfolio.
Advance AI with Scalable Infrastructure
Cisco is also unveiling new technologies to help customers accelerate the adoption of AI by providing the right
infrastructure for the right use cases.
- Cisco UCS X-Series Direct: An extension of Cisco’s industry-leading and award winning UCS
X-Series Modular System, the new Cisco X-Series Direct is built for environments where customers need
connectivity and compute power at the edge to support more applications with less infrastructure
- Cisco AI Validated Designs: Cisco is expanding its offering of converged and hyperconverged
validated designs addressing new use cases, leveraging recently
announced Cisco Validated Solutions and AI/ML
blueprint for data center networks. These designs can accelerate AI/ML deployments and minimize risks by
helping customers build high performance compute and data center network fabrics
with automation and visibility tailored for a variety of AI-driven enterprise use cases.
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